Summary:
Overview
Are you a compassionate veterinarian with a passion for helping at-risk animals? Do you excel in a fast-paced and ever-changing work environment? Is working with a dynamic and dedicated team in a mission-driven organization the description of your dream job? If so, you should consider the role of the Adoption Center Veterinarian.
As one of our staff veterinarians, youâll be a critical player on this high-performing staff and volunteer team that works collaboratively and effectively with internal and external stakeholders to further the ASPCAâs ultimate desired outcome that all animals live good lives. Staff veterinarians attend to the health of individual animals and the entire shelter population equally, with an eye toward minimizing length of stay (LOS) for animals and utilizing best practices and innovative programs to ensure all animals in the care of the Adoption Center receive timely services and support to move quickly and successfully into safe and loving homes.
Success in this role requires a clinician experienced in shelter medicine, comfortable with complex medical case management, and committed to animal welfare. The ideal candidate is organized, efficient, and excels in a fast-paced, evolving environment. Strong communication, teamwork, and decision-making skills are essential to provide high-quality medical care that meets each animalâs needs and accounts for behavioral complexities.Â
Who We Are
The Adoption Center currently provides shelter and adoption for five groups of animals:
Where and When Youâll Work
What Youâll Do
At the ASPCA, we are passionate about minimizing fear, anxiety, stress and pain in our patients. Team members in this position are responsible for providing service and communication to clients, members of the public, co-workers, and patients that are consistent with ASPCA standards and Fear FreeŽ values.
To succeed in this role, the Adoption Center Veterinarian will be a skilled clinician with a passion for attending to the welfare of each animal and the entire shelter population equally. The right candidate must be extremely well organized and efficient to operate in a fast-paced, continually changing environment. Finally, the staff veterinarian must also be an excellent communicator and team player, as well as someone who excels at guiding and coaching team members in providing quality medical care for animals.Â
What Youâll Get
Compensation
Starting pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of factors, including but not limited to education, training, experience, location, business needs, internal equity, market demands or budgeted amount for the role. The target hiring range is for new-hire offers only, and staff compensation may increase beyond the maximum hiring range based on performance over time. The maximum of the hiring range is reserved for candidates with the highest qualifications and relevant experience. The expected hiring salary range for this role is set forth below and may be modified in the future.Â
Benefits
At the ASPCA, you donât have to choose between your passion and making a living. Our comprehensive benefits package helps ensure you live a rewarding life at work and at home. Our benefits include, but are not limited to:
For more information on our benefits offers, click here.
Responsibilities:
Responsibility buckets are listed in general order of importance, and include but are not limited to:
Provide High Quality Patient and Population Care:
Provide timely, high-quality, practical, compassionate and cost-efficient veterinary care to a wide range of canines and felines in accordance with shelter medicine principles and best practices
Provide skilled and efficient diagnosis and treatment of patients with timely recognition of, and planning for, conditions requiring care through the ASPCA Animal Hospital (AAH)
Practice and model low-stress handling techniques to minimize animal fear, anxiety, and stress
Maintain regular and close communication with veterinary colleagues in other ASPCA programs, including with AAH regarding care of hospitalized patients, Community Medicine (CM), Animal Recovery Center (ARC), Recovery & Rehabilitation Center (R&R), and Kitten Nursery (KN) staff regarding medical needs and animal flow between the populations
Ensure that in-house and foster animals receive medical exams upon admission and are provided with on-going care as appropriate; ensure veterinary care provided is aligned with, and contributes to, the efficient and humane flow of animals from intake through outcome
Direct patient care provided by medical team members
Maintain accurate and thorough documentation of all exam findings, test results, diagnoses, treatments and procedures, in accordance with principles of medical record-keeping.
Create Certificate of Veterinary Inspections (CVI) for animals being transported interstate
Closely collaborate with other departments, including ARC, Kitten Nursery, and R&R, and with other teams, including Operations and Behavior, at the Adoption Center to ensure the overall welfare of animals in our care, to effectively share information in a timely fashion with relevant stakeholders, and to ensure that decision-making regarding treatment, pathway plans, and outcomes for each animal is informed by all relevant considerations.
Play a leading role in daily Medical-Behavior-Sheltering rounds (daily rounds/pathway planning); ensure individual patients and the population are assessed daily and treatment/intervention recommendations are implemented in a timely fashion
Guide appropriate and timely decisions about euthanasia â with attention to animalsâ physical, medical, social and behavioral needs collectively
Monitor the health and welfare of the shelter population, identify potential disease outbreaks, and implement appropriate mitigation measures. Ensure effective use of quarantine and isolation spaces to manage individual animal needs and effectively protect population health; ensure appropriate designation and use of PPE
Perform humane euthanasia
Adhere to all protocols put forth by Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Follow and enforce all ASPCA Adoption Center SOPs; provide input to written SOPs and other related materials including information sheets and data sheets
Offer input and feedback on medical protocols and standards of care
Obtain continuing education as required by ASPCA and state licensing board
Provide medical information and representation to other ASPCA departments, public and media
Deploy with other ASPCA teams, including but not limited to Community Engagement, Community Medicine, National Field & Disaster Response, the Cruelty Recovery Center, and the Rehabilitation & Recovery Center per availability and programmatic needs.
Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor, department head, or SVP
Teach and Coach Quality Patient Care:
With the Senior Director, Veterinary Services, contribute to a culture of learning at the Adoption Center, including ensuring a respectful and welcoming environment, active participation in goal setting and monitoring, clear expectations, and regular practice of feedback and after-actions
Model a standard of continual improvement in all aspects of Adoption Center care a
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